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Even more feral and testosterone-driven than usual, Grinderman adds a welcome dose of 60s proto-punk, analogue trickery and Rolling Stonery to Cave's habitual blues-punk tonight.

Grinderman Kitty Empire 2010

Cave spent much of the 90s writing stately, pent-up piano ballads about love, largely abandoning the uncouth wantonness that his core audience had treasured since the days of the Birthday Party, Cave's first notable band.

Grinderman Kitty Empire 2010

Seeing a few of Nick Cave's sculptures as she tours the fair, Pasternak says, "I think his earlier work was more raw."

This Woman is Changing the Way We See Art Marshall Heyman 2012

Every Cave lifer is more than aware of the fate that often awaits the women in Cave's songs.

Grinderman Kitty Empire 2010

Two out of three share Cave's fervid concern with gender relations.

Grinderman Kitty Empire 2010

For instance, a bittersweet, vaguely romantic moment in which Mr. Radcliffe danced to Nick Cave's "O Children" in a tent with his co-star, Emma Watson, during "Deathly Hallows," one of the few on-screen moments not found anywhere in the books.

Creating a Buzz for Harry 2011

Newly polished songs such as "Red Right Hand," which features Mr. Cave's brimstone vocals and a Latin swing, highlight the band's attention to detail in the studio.

Digging Up Seeds 2011

The Bad Seeds formed in 1983, but these midperiod reissues mark "the most conspicuous turning point" in Mr. Cave's songwriting, drummer James Sclavunos says, where often-macabre storytelling gives way to more personal lyrics, including his exploration of Christianity on "The Boatman's Call."

Digging Up Seeds 2011

A compulsive read possessing all Nick Cave's trademark horror and humanity, often thinly disguised in a galloping, playful romp. .

Nick Cave - live webchat - 3/9/2009 2009

More so than the female mass grave of his works, Crawford takes issue with Cave's latter-day respectability; with his repetitiveness, with his ego, with his refusal to grow up.

Grinderman Kitty Empire 2010